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Tracing the Past, Envisioning a Future: Mapping Neighborhood Transitions in Tenth Street, Dallas, Texas (2024)
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This is a poster submission presented at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Between 1865-1930, dozens of Freedom Colonies were established near Dallas. Today, most have been physically erased from the city’s landscape due to redlining, gentrification, and destructive urban policies. The Tenth Street Freedman’s Town, located in Oak Cliff, about a mile south of downtown Dallas, is one of the few that persists. Founded by free African Americans in the 1880s, Tenth...